Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] has [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The abolition of the old 75 percent grant system for adaptations to privately owned homes has been replaced by the bureaucratic nightmare on the new system which has dramatically decimated the number of grants made to enable us to live in our own homes . |
| 2 | Our market leading ‘ gold sub ’ ( AuSub© ) range of silver glass die attach pastes has been augmented by a new range of polymer based materials which can be used to attach semi-conductor chips in both ceramic and plastic packages . |
| 3 | The business of manhandling sacks has been replaced by automation , the grain being conveyed mechanically or pneumatically direct to the mill . |
| 4 | A government scheme allowing its controversial City Technology Colleges to train teachers has been welcomed by Teesside 's Macmillan College . |
| 5 | News that the region has backed plans to create purchasing consortiums has been criticized by the British Medical Association . |
| 6 | The time taken to process claims has been reduced ; the error rate is down ; and claimants are spending less time waiting . |
| 7 | The only Japanese car-maker in Britain which does n't recognise unions has been accused of denying twelve hundred workers their rights . |
| 8 | A classification of spearhead types has been made ( Swanton 1974 ) which shows how they have broad geographical distributions . |
| 9 | Since the Okapi " 86 experiments , the simple database of classes of approximate synonyms ( " child " = " children " ) , go phrases ( " french chalk " ) and stop words has been extended somewhat . |
| 10 | In Chemicals Manufacturing at Royston and Brimsdown , the normal hierarchy associated with production and support areas has been swept away , and replaced with teams and team leaders . |
| 11 | A joint press release states — ‘ A major new joint initiative from the two world governing bodies has been formulated , promoted by the recognition that bowls needs a marketing arm to properly develop and promote it as a major sport worldwide . |
| 12 | That part of the Aids debate that concerns homosexuals has been conducted in chaos . |
| 13 | Because the recognition of defective sight is so significant in terms of the child 's development and learning , it is not surprising that the importance of attention to presenting symptoms has been emphasised by experienced educators of visually handicapped children . |
| 14 | In this study we report the results of detailed analysis of the faecal unconjugated bile acid profiles of patients with colorectal cancer or polyps in comparison with controls and in which a careful attempt at controlling for confounding factors has been made . |
| 15 | The £2.6m first phase of new technology and mining techniques has been installed at Point of Ayr . |
| 16 | In most libraries user education activity fluctuates from year to year ; a bewildering range of teaching methods and teaching materials has been tried and applied ; and a discernible pattern of development in the programmes has been almost impossible to trace . |
| 17 | This urn containing tulips has been aged with pinkish tones , while its base colour echoes that of the grape hyacinths . |
| 18 | Thus , if the consecutive-spill method of handling synonyms has been used , a search may still be necessary even if no home record is detected when the home position is searched . |
| 19 | Ignoring the rights and wrongs of Lord Elton 's disagreements with some of his members , the fact is that a body meant to protect investors has been overshadowed by policy rows with the investment firms which make up its membership . |
| 20 | Over the years an archive of find spots has been collected and distribution maps can be drawn . |
| 21 | An increased proliferative capacity of the gastric epithelium next to the areas of MALT derived lymphomas has been postulated ( P G Isaacson , personal communication ) as a possible mechanism . |
| 22 | A PROFESSIONAL pick-pocket who targeted pensioners has been jailed for 27 months by Liverpool Crown Court . |
| 23 | A new kind of accommodation designed to appeal to budget travellers has been launched in the Shetland Islands . |
| 24 | * A book cataloguing 256 sites in the UK of international importance for breeding , migratory and wintering birds has been published . |
| 25 | The re-examination of NVOCC related rules has been made easier by the FMC regulations implementing the 1984 Shipping Act , as amended in 1990 . |
| 26 | In fact a common complaint over the past decade has been that the high level of data content included in entries for the benefit of cataloguing records has been achieved at the cost of timeliness , and the BNB has certainly lost ground as a selection source for this reason . |
| 27 | The method of tracing cases has been explained in Chapter 3 . |
| 28 | The growth of housing associations has been encouraged and subsidized from the centre , but financial rules have also made it advantageous for councils to co-operate ( form partnerships ) with housing associations . |
| 29 | Airborne , it flies like a dream — once mastery of pitch and rudder trims has been achieved . |
| 30 | A wide variety of methods for preparing spreads has been described and it would not be possible here to give precise details of them all . |